Oh! What prompted that?Ball studs will be staying 6 per side panel.
Oh! What prompted that?Ball studs will be staying 6 per side panel.
I used a 280mmx25mm rad in bottom of my Cerberus with 25mm fans, fit great other than my motherboard SATA connector pushed into the fan housing lightly.
Some updates:
We should have colors for preview on forums here next week, pre-order up not long after that.
Slot covers on production units will be black powder coated to match chassis.
Ball studs will be staying 6 per side panel.
More to come!
Oh! What prompted that?
Thanks for the info! I was worried about my part selection for a moment there. Are custom colors available to pre-order or just the standard colors?
Got a better price from ball stud / clip manufacturer, came out to about same cost to do 4 at old price as 6 at new. Plus should alleviate any panel gap concerns as @3lfk1ng guessed correctly.
For 17th goal we're sticking to the 5 colors + bare metal, hitting Black Friday shoppers is a must.
(I personally want to do sets of grained aluminum, stainless steel, gloss white, and a rustic steampunk set before Christmas. Only issue with these is the studs show on outside, but have an idea for a work around.)
Forget any 140mm fan/radiator at bottom as feet are covering screw location...you can put 1x140mm or 2x120mm at bottom..
Anyone have any color choices in mind yet? @Phuncz says red, which after seeing @MarcParis 's build log looks to be gorgeous.
I'm going Slate panels and Black roof with handle kit.
Leaning towards the front sfx psu option but may go with the rear mount. I have an H100v2 that I would like to keep using if possible.
In theory you should have 70mm in cpu cooler clearance with sfx rear psu, however as silverstonetek bracket is not maximising offset, so i got finally only something like 62-63mm...my apogee drive (61.5mm without fittings) is either tight fit or blocked with fittings.Pipes off the waterblock going straight up plus not very flexible so likely problems with clearance if PSU rear mounted. Now there will be an option for rear SFX too so +22.5mm extra clearance over the CPU (for a total of about 70mm IIRC) maybe that's enough.
The more conventional approach would be front mount SFX & rad on the bottom.
There's also the hinge bracket that will fill most of any full chassis window, may need to change the design slightly to make the hinge bracket optional. Will need community feedback and I'll talk to @PlayfulPhoenix.
(I personally want to do sets of grained aluminum, stainless steel, gloss white, and a rustic steampunk set before Christmas. Only issue with these is the studs show on outside, but have an idea for a work around.)
If anything is mounted to the side bracket (e.g. radiator) it makes maintenance a LOT easier to have the bracket remain attached while hinging out of the way. When I had a rad & HDD cage attached to the M1's bracket, it meant that if I wanted to access the motherboard I needed to either turn the case on it's side and lean the bracket & rad off of the side to avoid straining the tubing too much (as well as disconnecting the drives in the cage), or demount the cooler from the CPU. With the hinge, it can just be swung out of the way without any parts being strained.Actually, why hinge? vs something like a regular panel/frame that unmounts in one piece.
(Not sure why didn't I think to ask a few months back ._. )
Oh! What prompted that?